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69 -- TRAINING DEVICES, C-17 MAINTENANCE TRAINING DEVICES POC F. Joseph Winter, Program Manager, (513) 255-6984, ext 273. USAF/Aeronautical Systems Center, Training System Product Group is seeking information relative to possible approaches to accomplishing training and certification of Air Force maintenance personnel with the skills necessary to support the operational requirements of the C-17 fleet. The Air Force is considering implementing a C-17 Maintenance Training System ''guaranteed student'' concept to provide contractor trained, certification ready maintenance personnel. This contractor effort will include identification, development, and implementation of the required courseware. The goal is to have a single party responsible for delivering the training instruction required, providing all training media (devices, software, and courseware), instructors, maintenance of training media, and all updates to training media to maintain concurrency with C-17 aircraft configuration updates. Existing C-17 MTD Suites, including courseware, will be made available in the event of a contract award for a ''guaranteed maintenance technician''. A C-l7 MTD suite consists of complex, high fidelity, full size trainers that replicate portions of the C-17 aircraft. Each MTD suite consists of the following 12 trainers: Two Simulators for Training Evaluation/Performance (STE/P), One Flight Controls System Trainer (FCST), One Engine Cowling Maintenance Procedures Trainer (ECMPT), One Landing Gear Maintenance Trainer (LGMT), One Air Conditioning Maintenance Procedures Trainer (ACMPT), One Cargo Doors/Rails System Trainer (CD/RST), One Universal Aerial Refueling Receptacle Slipway Installation Trainer (UARRSIT), One Organizational Engine Maintenance Trainer (OEMT), One Auxiliary Power Unit Organization Maintenance Trainer (APUOMT), One Consolidated Maintenance Trainer (CMT), One Fuel Tank Maintenance Trainer (FTMT). The MTDs are used to train and certify maintenance personnel in the performance of specific maintenance tasks. Listings of these maintenance tasks for specific specialty codes are available on request. A development suite of C-17 MTDs are currently operational at Charleston Air Force Base and will require a continuation of contractor logistic support after 1 Oct 97. Aircraft concurrency modifications are presently being implemented on a second suite of MTDs, currently in storage in Orlando, Florida. The concurrency changes will then be retrofitted to Charleston Air Force Base to minimize impact to training. The second MTD suite will be transitioned to McChord Air Force Base WA. If you are interested in providing information related to possible approaches to a guaranteed student concepts, you are requested to submit the following information no later than 4 Apr 96. 1. Your company's combined approach and operating philosophy concerning the use of a Maintenance Training System concept to provide guaranteed C-17 aircraft maintenance technicians. For planning purposes, assume no on-aircraft maintenance training, and consider students to have completed AETC initial skills training (3 level). Annual student through-put (by AFSC) to be as follows: 2A5X1 (APG) - 600, 2A6X1A (PROP) - 150, 2A6X5 (HYD) - 100, 2A6X6 (EL/EN) - 160, 2A4X1 (GUID/CONT) - 160, 2A4X2 (COMM/NAV) - 160, 2A6X4 (FUELS) - 15 2. Description of how you would transition from Air Force conducted training to total contractor training and take possession of the MIDs, courseware, and spares package on an incremental basis. Assume contractor furnished facilities. Include any phased approach methodology and notional schedules. 3. Experience in the use of student training management systems, maintenance training task courseware development, training instruction, and maintaining and updating multiple baselines of complex training simulators. 4. Experience in managing and operating the logistics support of complex suites of maintenance training devices at multiple sites. Include your planning to insure contractor logistics support personnel are in place 1 Oct 97. Additional information, which may become available, will be placed on the Pre-Award Information Exchange System (PIXS) electronic bulletin board (access via modem at 513-476-7217 or INTERNET address http://www.pixs.wpafb.af.mil) or the TSPG home page (INTERNET address http://www.tspg.wpafb.af.mil). An industry day will be held at 0830 on 28 Mar 96 at Bane Hall in the Air Force Institute of Technology School of Engineering, building 640, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, to solicit industry comments on the planned acquisition approach. All prospective offerors are requested to indicate by fax, prior to 21 Mar 96, their intent to submit information take part in the 28 Mar 96 industry day. Send fax to (513)255-1292, ATTN: Ms Teresa Cochran, C-l7 MTD Contracting Officer, with the following information: Company name, Point of Contact, Telephone number, and Company Small Business status and 8A status. Information contained in this synopsis is for information and planning purposes only, it does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an Invitation for Bid (lFB), and it is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. At a future date, you must do a sources sought per Chip Winter, this is only a request for information. (0073)

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